Hans Lasser

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Hans Lasser (* 13. October 1891 in Metz , † 14. July 1932 in Munich ) was a figurative painter of Expressionism in Germany in the 1920s.

Life

Hans Lasser was born in 1891 in Metz, which at the time was still part of the German Empire as the Lorraine district due to the Peace of Frankfurt . After his first artistic training with E. Groß and Emil Schneider in Strasbourg , Hans Lasser studied painting from 1911 to 1913 with Carl von Marr at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1914 he traveled to Paris. At the end of the First World War, Hans Lasser moved permanently to Munich at Hiltensbergerstraße 36 in 1918.

From 1920 he belonged to the Munich New Secession , where he exhibited figure pictures, portraits and landscapes. In 1922 there was a collective exhibition at Hans Goltz in Munich, the anniversary exhibition “10 Years of New Art in Munich” , u. a. with Otto Dix , Max Ernst , Lyonel Feininger and in 1924 then with Oskar Kokoschka and Lovis Corinth, among others . In 1926, Hans Lasser accompanied the author Georg Britting and the painter Josef Achmann on a long journey through Italy and created the drawings for travel stations and texts by Georg Britting, who published them in the Frankfurter Zeitung and the Magdeburgische Zeitung. At the international exhibition “The beautiful person in new art” from June 16 to October 6, 1929 at Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, two works by Lasser were shown next to u. a. Marc Chagall , Max Pechstein and Oskar Schlemmer are on display. From May 30th to the beginning of October 1930, Hans Lasser was represented with six exhibits at the "German Art Exhibition Munich 1930 in the Glaspalast " . In addition to works by Max Beckmann , Oskar Kokoschka, Max Liebermann and Emil Nolde , his picture Sommer was also shown directly in the catalog.

He was married to Wilhelmine Lasser who, as a widow, worked as a missionary doctor in China for 15 years. Hans Lasser died at the age of 40 and was buried on July 16, 1932 in Munich.

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Lasser's paintings are characterized by compact compositions that emphasize the surface of the picture, by their soft physicality and simplifying plasticity of the figures and objects, as well as by their extensive application of paint. Today his works are scattered in private collections. Known include:

"The Dream" (1924, oil / canvas, approx. 85 × 70 cm)
"Portrait of a gentleman" (approx. 1925, oil / canvas, 85 × 85 cm)
  • "Bischheim - Girl walking towards a field" (1917, gouache / paper, 24.5 × 34 cm)
  • "Man with Horse on Forest Path" (1917, gouache, 24 × 32 cm)
  • "Cyclists on Village Road" (1922, gouache, 28 × 33.5 cm)
  • "Landscape with a man sitting on a bench, a horse next to it" (1922, drawing, watercolor, gouache / paper, 33.6 × 27.8 cm)
  • "Portrait of a Young Lady" (1923, oil on canvas, 79.5 × 66.5 cm)
  • "Bergdorf" (1923, gouache, 34.7 × 24.7 cm)
  • "View of a village in the hilly landscape" (1923, gouache, 33.6 × 27.8 cm)
  • "Bathers" (~ 1923, exhibition of the Munich New Secession)
  • "In der Wanne" (1923, drawing, watercolor, gouache / paper)
  • "Nude" (1924, oil / canvas)
  • "The Dream" (1924, oil / canvas, approx. 85 × 70 cm)
  • "Portrait of a Man" (1925, exhibition by the Munich New Secession)
  • "Herrenbildnis" (~ 1925, oil / canvas, 85 × 85 cm)
  • "Girl" (1927, drawing)
  • "Girl getting out of the bathroom" (~ 1927)
  • "Volem Dam" (1928, oil / canvas, 56 × 47 cm)
  • "Am Trapez" (~ 1928, exhibition of German art )
  • "Reclining female nude" (1929, drawing, watercolor and ink, 30 × 23 cm)
  • "Mädchen im Kahn" and "Das Paar" (~ 1929)
  • "Apple harvest" (~ 1930, oil / canvas)
  • "Ship swing" (~ 1930, oil / canvas)
  • "Summer" (~ 1930, oil / canvas)
  • "Wanderer im Schnee" (~ 1930, oil / canvas)
  • "Self-Portrait" (~ 1930, oil / canvas)
  • "Woman at the Dressing Table" (~ 1930, oil / canvas)
  • "Study an den Meerfischern" (1932, charcoal drawing, 55 × 45 cm incl. Framing)
  • "Wanderer in Winter" (oil / canvas, 86 × 70 cm)
  • "Idyllic mountain landscape with church" (drawing, watercolor, gouache / paper, 34.7 × 24.8 cm)
  • "Sunny landscape with cow and girl" (drawing by watercolor, gouache / paper)
  • "Last Supper Study" (drawing, watercolor, ink, 19.5 × 28.5 cm)
  • "Cosmic Melancholy - Two couples looking at the clock" (drawing by watercolor, 47 × 31 cm)
  • "Artists" (canvas, 86.5 × 70.5 cm)
  • "Women and the boat" (canvas, 86 × 71 cm)

The following four works in the Hanover State Museum were listed by the National Socialists in 1941/1942 as "degenerate art" in a typewritten directory of the " Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda " and, according to this list, all were destroyed by the Nazis:

  • "Female Half Nude"
  • "Russian"
  • "Girl with propped arms"
  • "Sitting female semi-nude"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matrikelbuch 1884-1920, 04085 Hans Lasser, http://matrikel.adbk.de/matrikel/mb_1884-1920/jahr_1911/matrikel-04085 , accessed on 03/11/16.
  2. ^ Ingeborg Schuldt-Britting: Georg Britting and Günther Herzfeld-Wüsthoff; A friendship with breaks , [1] (pp. 5–6).
  3. ^ Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg: Galerie Heinemann online, [2]
  4. ^ Munich New Secession: VI. Exhibition , Munich 1920, p. 21, and subsequent catalogs.
  5. ^ Georg Britting Foundation: Volume 18 "Italian Impressions" , [3] (pp. 12, 30, 31).
  6. ^ A b Exhibition catalog The beautiful person in the new art , Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, October 1929, page 60
  7. ^ Exhibition catalog German Art Exhibition Munich 1930 in the Glaspalast , page 45 [4] .
  8. ^ Exhibition catalog German Art Exhibition Munich 1930 in the Glaspalast , page 91 [5] .
  9. ↑ Auction results for works of art by Hans Lasser
  10. ^ Journal of German Art and Decoration , 1923, Volume 52, page 322
  11. ↑ Zeitschrift Jugend , 1924, Volume 29, Issue 1, illustration on page 9
  12. ^ Journal of German Art and Decoration , October 1925, Volume 57, page 31
  13. ↑ Zeitschrift Jugend , 1927, Volume 32, Issue 45, illustration on page 932
  14. ^ Mentioned in German Art and Decoration , October 1927, Volume 61, page 13
  15. ^ Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, May - October 1928, illustration in the exhibition catalog
  16. ↑ List of «Degenerate Art», a project by taz and ODC, Archived Copy ( Memento of November 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), p. 4 - p. 5, no. 127 - no. 130.
personal data
SURNAME Lasser, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1932
Place of death Munich